Posted on June 30, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
I’ve posted about “new information” in the past, but I recently wrote this for some friends and figured it may as well go up here, too.
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This is from a YouTube video by some dishonest creationists who poorly edited a video to make it look like Richard Dawkins couldn’t answer a question. It doesn’t deserve to [...]
Filed under: Evolution | Tagged: Amino acid, Dawkins, DNA, Evolution, Gene duplication, New Information | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 28, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
From Conservapedia:
Attention Canadian evolutionists! Conservapedia now nearly ranks in the Google top 10 for the very popular search “evolution” at Google Canada! The Conservapedia evolution article ranks #12 at Google Canada for the search evolution![8] The article appears to be rapidly gaining prominence on the Canadian internet. Will this creation science wildfire spread to the [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
I don’t care that Michael Jackson is dead. I just know this will add to my blog stats. All aboard the exploitation train, right?
That is all.
Filed under: News | Tagged: dead celebrities, Ed Mcmahon, Farrah Fawcett, King of Pop, Michael Jackson | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 25, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
The more and more I think about it, the more and more I recognize just how easy it is to understand evolution.
Evolution is the change within populations over time. This change is continuous. Take birds, for instance. They are descended from dinosaurs. Depending on who you ask, you might even hear them referred to as [...]
Filed under: Evolution | Tagged: Birds, darwin, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Gradual, Species, Wallace | 19 Comments »
Posted on June 24, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
Sex with obese individuals is unnatural, not intended by God, and thus wrong and immoral.
People are naturally attracted to healthy individuals. The obese are definitively not healthy. It follows, plainly and clearly, that any attraction to these people is a sexual perversion. Furthermore, those who are obese are gluttonous and thus sinners.
As a [...]
Filed under: Politics and Social | Tagged: bible, gay marriage, immoral, Moral, Natural, Obesity, Parody, Unnatural | 41 Comments »
Posted on June 23, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
I recently watched a BBC America special by David Attenborough titled Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life. It was excellent. I’m familiar with Attenborough. Any fan of science probably is. However, I’ve had limited exposure to the man. He isn’t as popular in America as he is across the Pond as far as I [...]
Filed under: Evolution | Tagged: Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, David Attenborough, Evolution | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 19, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
I recently wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper, the Kennebec Journal. Here it is.
My very first job was at Hannaford on Willow Street. Starting pay for a high school student was relatively good, key word “relatively”. My friends made minimum wage whereas Hannaford started me a quarter above. That’s not fantastic, [...]
Filed under: News, Politics and Social | Tagged: Hannaford, John Gibson, Kennebec Journal, letter to the editor, Naomic Schalit | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 19, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
Posted on June 17, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
This is currently on Conservapedia’s front page:
The killer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, James von Brunn, was a white supremacist and also an evolutionary racist. James von Brunn wrote that “Only the strong survive. Cross breeding whites with species on the evolutionary scale diminishes the white gene-pool while increasing the number of physiologically, psychologically, [...]
Filed under: Evolution | Tagged: Adolf Hitler, charles darwin, conservapedia, Eugenics, Evolution, James von Brunn, Racism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Michael Hawkins
One person used these terms to find my blog:
jehovah witness bad?
The answer is “yes”.
Filed under: Misc | Tagged: jehovah witness bad?, jehovah's witness | Leave a Comment »